Kenaz: A figure created out of the scriptures?
Kenaz is a marginal figure in the Jewish scriptures. And yet for Pseudo-Philo, Kenaz’s importance rivals that of Moses and Joshua. Pseudo-Philo gives Kenaz a long and illustrious career unparalleled in the extant literature (LAB 25-28). But whereas past scholarship has seen the roots of Pseudo-Philo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2020]
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Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2020, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 245-259 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Literature
/ Philo, Alexandrinus 25 BC-40
/ Figure
/ Joshua Biblical character
/ Bible. Judge 1-3
/ Invention
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Pseudepigrapha
B THE BOOK OF JUDGES B Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum B Second Temple Judaism B Kenaz B Pseudo-Philo |
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| Summary: | Kenaz is a marginal figure in the Jewish scriptures. And yet for Pseudo-Philo, Kenaz’s importance rivals that of Moses and Joshua. Pseudo-Philo gives Kenaz a long and illustrious career unparalleled in the extant literature (LAB 25-28). But whereas past scholarship has seen the roots of Pseudo-Philo’s description of Kenaz in the language of Judg 1-3, this link is tenuous at best. Instead, the description of Kenaz is pieced together out of unrelated passages from the Jewish scriptures. This article explores the scriptural sources for Pseudo-Philo’s description of Kenaz. In short, Pseudo-Philo has not inherited Kenaz from tradition or exegesis but has invented him using the Jewish scriptures. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0951820720929685 |